After several cold, gloomy and dreary days, this past Easter weekend brought glorious sunshine and lifted spirits. Our rivers and streams are in very fishable shape for the beginning of the trout season, and are actually at a lower than average flow. Up until last Wednesday flows were well above average, but dropped down by Thursday afternoon. Sunday evening showed that the Beaverkill at Cooks Falls was flowing at 681 cubic feet per second - a very fishable flow - although lower than the Median average flow on this date of 956 cfs over 110 years of record-keeping. The lowest recorded flow on March 31 was 226 cfs in 2006, while the highest flow was 13,300 - above flood stage - back in 1951. With the weather forecast for April showers all week, and even some snow on Wednesday and Thursday, no doubt river levels will rise to at least the average flow again.